Monk And Perry Mason

Sometimes being sick has its perks. Tonight my parents and I have watched a bunch of tv shows together and among them have been Monk and Perry Mason. Now, Monk is a fun and modern detective type show where every one is so different but the basic principle of how the mysteries are solved remains throughout, while Perry Mason is this old black and white detective show that is very cookie cutter in every single one of the episodes and is totally cheese-tastic. Haha for some reason I love Perry Mason though, in a twisted sort of way. A few months ago when my sister in law Tiffanie came to visit us from Ohio (my brother Chad couldn't get work off), we introduced her to Perry Mason and surprisingly she told us she loved it and would stay up every night to watch it with my parents. Haha it made us all laugh -- we never thought she'd be into something like that. Tonight, Monk was two back-to-back episodes but each one was very different and cool. One was about a serial-bomber through the postal service kind of way. The other was about a man-whore magazine guy who killed the guy who was going to stop printing his magazine for how much it sucked and was losing money. Haha now Perry Mason...same deal where someone kills someone for double-crossing someone and there is a very melodramatic court trial where they finally push some hysterical woman...or man...over the edge to fessing up. I just love the contrast. It makes me smile. :) On that note, I want to serve someone with a subpoena in a sauna steam room thing some day. I just witnessed that very act, and it made me giggle.